Example sentences of "periods [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people with AIDS have to spend long periods of time in hospital unless there is someone at home who can help and look after them . |
| 2 | Without ACET 's practical support at home they could spend long periods of time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 3 | In our rapidly vanishing century , decades are also taken as periods of time to be commemorated . |
| 4 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 5 | However , where facilities are available for use over short periods of time , the rudiments of camera acting are taught in a structured way . |
| 6 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 7 | In my view , accuracy can only be assured over very short periods of time , after which the refereeing panel must receive a proper rest . |
| 8 | Your council can also choose to extend these periods of time or set new classes of property other than the one laid down by the Government . |
| 9 | The White Paper implies that waiting lists will be reduced by increased efficiency — often meaning more operations and shorter periods of time spent in hospital by patients . |
| 10 | This enables underwater operation for long periods of time . |
| 11 | The responsibility can be defined differently at different periods of time . |
| 12 | Can you share the same confines , for long periods of time , and where does your tolerance level lie ? |
| 13 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |
| 14 | Studying the body clock for extended periods of time |
| 15 | Depending on the nature of the defect , electrons may remain trapped for long periods of time ; such a trap would be referred to as ‘ deep ’ . |
| 16 | They are full of fun and not a breed that you can leave for long periods of time , as they are so human orientated . |
| 17 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 18 | It has also been clear in his methods of training orchestras over long periods of time . |
| 19 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 20 | In addition to the mobility required of them as deputies in battle for the king , they were also kept in attendance at their father 's court at Aachen for long periods of time . |
| 21 | Cotswold Wildlife Park aspires to show animals to people — so that they can come to understand and respect all forms of wildlife ; to understand what is special about each species , and how the various species have evolved and adapted over very long periods of time , adjusting and changing to survive in habitats from many parts of the earth . |
| 22 | ( Later the bill was amended to provide that the Secretary of State would be prohibited from prescribing periods of time or proportions of school timetables to be allocated to programmes of study : see now ERA 1988 , section 4(3) . ) |
| 23 | ‘ Long periods of racial oppression ’ , he writes , ‘ can result in a system of inequality that may persist for indefinite periods of time even after racial barriers are removed ’ ( p. 146 ) . |
| 24 | Contact with other nations ( Egypt in the case of Herodotus ) led to a greater awareness of the past , because of the evidence for long periods of time presented , for example , by the pyramids . |
| 25 | The Maya pictured the divisions of time as burdens carried by a hierarchy of divine bearers who personified the respective numbers by which the different periods of time — days , months , years , etc. — were distinguished . |
| 26 | It was three weeks to the competition , five weeks to the end of his school career , long periods of time by his reckoning . |
| 27 | And it does n't tie up your money for long periods of time . |
| 28 | A practical way to provide sums of more than £250,000 for larger businesses over short periods of time , more cheaply than with an overdraft , is Barclays Managed Rate Facility . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , its been a strain — I did n't mind at first because she 'd stay down at her flat for short periods of time , but obviously as her memory 's got worse she does n't realise that she 's got a flat , and the only thing she knows is in here , and this is the only place she wants to be — here . |
| 30 | Therefore , the actions which are defined as criminal will vary with different social settings — in different societies and different periods of time . |